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Mothra vs. Godzilla (モスラ対ゴジラ Mosura tai Gojira) is a 1964 tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Toho, and the fourth installment in the Godzilla series as well as the Showa series. The film was released to Japanese theaters on April 29, 1964, and to American theaters on November 25, 1964.
Mothra vs. Godzilla marks the first crossover between two of Toho's own monsters: their flagship character Godzilla and the giant moth deity Mothra, introduced three years prior in her own film. When Mothra's egg washes ashore in Japan following a typhoon, greedy businessmen Kumayama and Jiro Torahata claim it as their own property and plan to exploit it for revenue. To make matters worse, Godzilla reemerges and begins rampaging across Japan, making his way straight for the egg. It's up to Ichiro Sakai, Junko Nakanishi, and Shunsuke Miura to travel to Infant Island and plead with the dying Mothra to return to Japan and battle Godzilla to save both her offspring and the millions of innocent people threatened by Godzilla's rampage.
This is a transcript of the Japanese opening credits of Mothra vs. Godzilla, as translated into English on the 2006 Classic Media DVD release of the film, and the opening credits of the American version of the film, Godzilla vs. The Thing.
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Executive Producer
Screenplay by
Director of Photography
- Hajime Koizumi
Art Director
- Takeo Kita
Sound Recording by
- Fumio Yanoguchi
Lighting by
- Shoshichi Kojima
Music by
Voicing by
- Hisashi Shimonaga
Assistant Director
- Koji Kajita
Editor
- Ryohei Fuji
Sound Effects by
- Sadamasa Nishimoto
Film Developing
- Tokyo Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Production Manager
- Boku Morimoto
Special Effects
Photography by
- Sadamasa Arikawa, Mototaka Tomioka
Optical Photography by
- Yukio Manoda, Yoshiyuki Tokumasa
Art Director
- Hiroshi Watanabe
Lighting by
Image Composition by
- Hiroshi Mukoyama
Assistant Director
Production Manager
- Tadashi Koike
Cast
- Akira Takarada
- Yuriko Hoshi
- Hiroshi Koizumi
- Yu Fujiki
- Kenji Sahara
- The Peanuts: Emi & Yumi Ito
- Jun Tazaki
- Yoshifumi Tajima
- Kenzo Tatake
- Futaka Sada
- Akira Tani
- Susumu Fujita
- Ikio Sawamura
- Ken Yamamoto
- Kozo Nomura
- Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
- Mitsuo Tsuda
- Shin Otamo
- Senkichi Omura
- Yoshio Kosugi
- Miki Yashiro
- Koji Iwamoto
- Terumi Oka
- Wataru Omae
- Shiro Tsuchiya
- Takuzo Kumagai
- Koji Uno
- Yutaka Nakayama
- Toshihiko Furuta
- Hideo Shibuya
- Koji Urugi
- Kenzo Echigo
- Yukihiko Gondo
- Koichi Sato
- Hiroshi Akitsu
- Tadashi Okabe
- Haruya Okabe
- Seishiro Kuno
- Hiroshi Takagi
- Keisuke Yamada
- Shinjiro Hirota
- Shigemi Sunagawa
- Ikuo Kawamura
- Rinsaku Ogata
- Haruo Suzuki
Asunaro Theatrical Group
Director of Special Effects
Directed by
Godzilla vs. The Thing
James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff Present
GODZILLA VS. THE THING
© Copyright MCMLXIV American International Productions, All Rights Reserved
Produced by
- Toho Co., Ltd.
Starring
- Akira Takarada
- Yuriko Hoshi
- Hiroshi Koizumi
- Yu Fujiki
- Kenji Sahara
- Emi Ito
- Yumi Ito
- Urushi Tazakai
Screenplay
Special Effects Photography Director
Photography
- Hajime Koizumi
Art Director
- Takeo Kita
Recording
- Fumio Yanoguchi
Lighting
- Shoshichi Kojima
Music
Sound Technician
- Hisashi Shimonaga
Assistant to Director
- Okiji Kajita
Editing
- Ryohei Fujii
Sound Effects
- Sadamasa Nishimoto
In Charge of Production
- Boku Moritomo
All characters, events, and places in this film are fictitious and any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Special Optical Photography
- Sokei Tomioka
- Yukio Manoda
- Yoshiyuki Tokumasa
Cameraman of Special Effects
- Sadamasa Arikawa
Art Director for Special Effects
Lighting for Special Effects
Mixing
- Hiroshi Mukoyana
Assistant to Director of Special Effects
In Charge of Special Effects Production
- Chuji Koike
Re-Recording
- Titra Sound Studios
Tohoscope
Color print by Pathé
Executive Producers
- Sanezumi Fujimoto
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
Director
